Community Wildlife Conservation Award - Nomination Form

The award recipient for 2022 is Snowy Mountains Wildlife Rescue LAOKO Inc.  Snowy Mountains Wildlife Rescue LAOKO Inc, formed in 1988, is the second longest-running wildlife rescue group in New South Wales.  Snowy Mountains Wildlife Rescue is a community organisation run entirely by volunteers caring for orphans, rehabilitating injured wildlife, and providing community education and training programs.  Snowy Mountains Wildlife Rescue rescues injured and orphaned native fauna in the entire Snowy Monaro region.  They have an emergency phone number operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by volunteers MORE>>

The award recipient for 2021 is the Wombat Protection Society of Australia of Tomerong, New South Wales. This group has operated for more than twenty years to protect wombats.  Through its regular workshops and seminars, it educates schools, communities, and wildlife groups on the conservation and care of wombats.  It has partnered with several universities to support research into wombats and their conservation.  One of its significant achievements has been developing the burrow flap method to treat wombats with mange.  Wombat Protection Society of Australia provides burrow flaps to interested groups and constantly researches the best ways to treat mange.  Its education programs encourage people to coexist with wombats and not view them as pests MORE>>

The award recipient for 2020 is the Queensland Wader Study Group of Clayfield, Queensland.  Queensland Wader Study Group volunteers have been conducting migratory shorebird surveys from Cape York to the New South Wales border.  The award recognises thirty years of voluntary effort and commitment to conservatory shorebirds' conservation through citizen science, public and school-based education, and advocacy at the local, state, and national levels to protect vulnerable migratory shorebirds.  An extraordinary long-term effort by a passionate group across Queensland who have counted shorebirds each month to create one of the most respected longitudinal shorebird databases used by governments and scientists call for greater protection of habitats for shorebirds MORE>> MORE>> MORE>>

The award for 2019 was made to Belgian Gardens State School of Belgian Gardens, Queensland. Belgian Gardens State School is an active participant in the conservation of the black-throated finch. The school has an active partnership with the Northern Queensland Dry Tropics and black-throated finch recovery program MORE>>MORE>>

The award for 2018 was made to Kanyana Wildlife Refuge, near Perth, Western Australia. This organisation has operated for over 40 years with the aid of a strong band of volunteers. The refuge rehabilitates many animals each year and conducts research into factors affecting local wildlife. It now has added a captive breeding program to its services. Kanyana has a strong school holiday program and works in collaboration with local universities to conduct research into factors affecting local wildlife. In recent years it has focused on research into parasites affecting wildlife and has been responsible for discovering previously unidentified parasites. MORE »  MORE » 

The award for 2017 was made to Port Stephens Koala and Wildlife Preservation Society, who have been operating in the Hunter region of NSW for 40 years.  The group has built up a magnificent set of statistics on koala rescues and has been able to demonstrate conclusively the decline in the local population.   This has led to efforts to have the local koala population classified as Endangered by the NSW Scientific Committee.   MORE »

The award for 2016 was made to Frog Safe, Inc. of Edmonton, North Queensland. This organisation has operated a frog hospital for 18 years, treating over 3,000 frogs in that time and has developed a deep understanding of frog health. Frog populations around the world are in decline and our awardee is doing its best to help understand and prevent this decline. It has developed an informative website, which is consulted far and wide and has been archived by the Government as part of its PANDORA project. Frog Safe's expertise is such that it is not only consulted by persons in its locality but by persons, including vets, in all parts of Australia and even from overseas. It has succeeded in making the world its community. MORE»

The Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2015 was made to the Friends of the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby Inc (BTRW). This group is based in the Kangaroo Valley and has been active in trying to prevent the extinction of the local population of the BTRW since 1995. The group has formed a close alliance with the local community, local landholders, local schools and with National Parks and Wildlife. They are a great example of a successful community organisation at working together for wildlife conservation.MORE»

The Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2014 was Wild Mob of Brisbane. Although Wild Mob has a Brisbane base its work ranges from the Barrier Reef to Tasmania. They have focused their attention on saving endangered species. MORE »

The Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2013 was not awarded.

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2012 is the NSW Nature Conservation Working Group (NCWG) based in the Murray catchment area of NSW. MORE »

The Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2011 was not awarded.

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2010 is Wombat Awareness Organisation of South Australia. MORE »

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2009 is Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation (C4) of Mission Beach North Queensland. MORE »

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2008 was Australian Ecosystems Foundation Inc. of Lithgow, NSW. MORE »

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2007 was the Natural History Society of South Australia Inc. MORE »

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2006 was Friends of the Koala Inc from Lismore in New South Waollles. MORE »

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2005 was Mareeba Wetland Foundation of Northern Queensland. MORE »

The winner of the Community Wildlife Conservation Award for 2004 was Waterfall Springs Conservation Association Incorporated of Kulnurra near Gosford, NSW. MORE »

The recipient of the inaugural Community Wildlife Conservation Award – “Bringing Back the Flashjack Project” of Emerald in Central Queensland. MORE »